Think of a number: conceptual transfer in the second language acquisition of English plural-marking
Dao (2007) found that Vietnamese learners of English produced numeric plurals (e.g. five books) before lexical plurals (e.g. books). Processability Theory (PT) (Pienemann 1998; 2005; 2007) predicts the reverse order, assuming that agreement requires a process of unification which involves the storag...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive
2012-12-01
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| Series: | CogniTextes |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cognitextes/611 |